“But shouldn’t our suppliers be building the developer programs?” I hear some operators asking. However, infrastructure suppliers make money by selling boxes, software licenses, maintenance and support; those suppliers do not understand the end customers as well as the operator. If they do, then the operator will likely not be independent for long. There is […]
HomeCamera enables people to securely see what’s going on at home without being an expert in geeky stuff like DDNS (Dynamic Domain Name System), NAT (Network Address Translation) and port forwarding, which are generally required for the home surveillance solutions on the market today. HomeCamera aims to be an easy-to-use home surveillance system, with any […]
What is a ‘service delivery architecture’? It really depends upon with whom you are talking. Are they are a vendor trying to sell IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), or a Java games download platform; or are they an operator responsible for value-added communication services, IPTV, or content services. Each will likely give quite different answers. Service […]
Overall Summary / Opinion An important first step in meeting the competitive disadvantage VZW faces compared to the GSM operators. A device centric ODIS (Open Device Interface Specification) defines what a device must do to interface to the VZ RAN (between the device radio hardware and the access network), and the support structure to help […]
I thought it would be timely to share a little more on my perspective of the Telco API, given my attendance at some upcoming conferences around Web/Telco 2.0 where this will be topic of discussion: TeleStrategies Telco + Web 2.0 Service Creation conference were I’m running a pre-conference workshop on “Successful Strategies for SDP Deployment” […]
The Application Network Interface (ANI) is an interface through which operators can expose capabilities from their networks to third parties such as single sign-on, location and presence. At SDP Asia I gave a presentation on “Examining the importance of the SDP to an Operator’s Web / Voice / Telco 2.0 strategy” where I covered a […]
SDP Asia was held in Singapore 26th-29th November 2007. It’s the 2nd such event Informa has run, and presented a chance to test out some of the ideas I’ve been developing within the US and European markets around the Application Network Interface and its role within the SDP (Service Delivery Platform). SDP is a broad […]
I attended the Connect 2007 Conference in Boston on 2nd October. It’s organized by NMS, and it’s FREE! NMS run several developer conferences so have a slick organization on such events, and are now branching out into a broader industry discussion addressable to Director/VP/CxO level in both suppliers and operators. It kicked off with a […]
The telecom and IT industries tend to suffer more than most from the hype cycle. What surprises me is the hype tends to be around technologies rather than solutions. I guess it’s easier to get excited about a something that ‘could do’ rather than ‘can do.’ At present the hype machine in gearing up on […]
The term ‘on-device portal’ (ODP) describes ‘thin client’ software that provides a graphical user interface to improve the presentation of content on mobile devices, addressing the ‘3 Ls:’ Latency, Look-and-feel, and Lack of availability (not always connected). The ODP market remains nascent. However, we’ve seen this year some significant steps forward with the selection of […]